Private messages: (figure I would post an apology here)
Sorry, I didn't respond earlier to private messages: I just found out that you have to check messages.
They used to post a red message at the top of the screen when you got messages.
I just went through and closed them with replies (back to last August, 2013).
That's a real pain that a red message doesn't show any more and one has to constantly check for messages.